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At the Annual Meeting., on - the sth inst., the following were Some of the leading* res ults disclosed in the Report to the shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Premiums of the year 1863 reached the sum of £341,653 Being an advance of over 1862; an amount of increase exceeding that of any pre , Pious year. ,' The Revenue from Fire Premiums has been en- itanceel in four years by the large sum of £113,353 The Duty paid to Government in 1862 was. £75.093 Ditto ditto, 1863 88,966 ' showing an Increase in one year of Among the incidents which have tended to the advance ment of the Royal within the last few months may be reckoned Its action with respect to the losses sustained by the explo sion of the Lotty Sleigh, which although only con -istent with the general tenor of the conduct of the Company, and ulti lnately proved to be no more than what had been done in for tier times by the oldest and most proverbially honourable among its contemporaries, yet attracted attention and public favour by its unhesitating promptness. As the largest tot.il of Revenue and the largest ratio of progression have been attained in the present year, so it Directors that the largest Profit which it has ever fallen tothe -Directors to record has likewise on this occasion to be an nounced. The balance of net profit on theyear has amounted to £83,515 • of which sum £34,100 only has been appropriated 'to Dividend and Bonus, and the large balan.e of £49,441 been tarried to Reserve. LIFE BRANCH. tOtess of the Life Branch, as shown by the New fakik,c usiness transacted In the last year, is most promising, and the advances made, year by year, in the amount of New In- IgUrances effected, show clearly the estimation in which the Company is held. The following is a statement for the last live years : Net Sum Assured on New Policies after deducting Guarantees. Net Premiums. 1859 1860 ... 449,241 16 2 ........ 45,079 17 10 1861 1862 1863 . 752,546 18 10 This rapid growth, amounting to 73 per cent. on the Sum Assured, and upwards of 80 per cent. on the Premium re ceived in the course of five years, may justly be considered as larger than any which could have been reasonably expected. The first half of the current year 1864, however, far outsti ips the ratio of increase indicated by the figures just quoted, as the sum assured for that period of six months only actually exceeds Half-a-Mil ion sterling - . The rate of Mortality, likewise, still presents highly favour able features, and augurs well for the result to be shown by the quinquennial investigation, which is to take place when the present year is concluded. - • • PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. August, 1864. pIGS! PIGS! 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U.I..eItiGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and . are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo .din.-able engravings of every description of Furniture and Leasteads, with prices attached. A copy sent giatts and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised tale : except in so far as the degree of humidity is the result of local defects and drainage, these conditions cannot, of course, be changed, save by resorting to mountains or table-lands as sites for military stations. Such being the case, it be came a very important point for the Commissioners to con sider what was the amount and kind of influence which the climate was likely to exercise on the soldier's health, and in dealing with that important question they seem to have been very much struck by the absence of direct alle gations against it in the, stational reports; but they are nevertheless of opinion that the climate does produce some effect on the general health of Europeans exposed to its influence, There are, however, they find, many other agencies at work in the production of disease, and first among them they rank malaria, that subtle cause known only by its effects. At all the stations of India, it appears, the presence of malaria can he traced. It is the chief cause of periodic fevers and certain forms of spleen disease among the native population. It is most intense in its operation in low, warm, moist localities, where there is a superabund ance of vegetation and water, and is ascertained to be the product of heat, moisture, and vegetable decomposi tion; by the withdrawal of uaY one of which elements in its composition its generation cart be stopped. Whether it is possible ever to banish this scourge from the soil of India the Commissioners do not take upon themselves to say. They rest satisfied with expressing their satisfaction at the know ledge that it has everywhere disappeared before the clear ing away of such obstacles to the free circulation of air as forests and jungle, before subsoil drainage and improved agriculture. 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Letters from the Principalities.—No. 111. Prince Couza's Coup-d'Etat. The City of Gold. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Sanitary State of the Indian Army, Having ascertained the extent of the mortality among ;he troops in India, the Commissioners proceeded to trace the causes to which it is attributable, and of these they find the most active to be dysentery and diarrhcoa, fever, diseases of the liver, and cholera. These are the four great endemic diseases of the country, and compared with them all others are of trifling importance. Of the four dysentery has hitherto proved to b© the most fatal in its consequences. Sir R. Martin ,who served 22 yearsin India,and who describes this disease as being most prevalent in the plains and during the hot and rainy seasons, states in his evidence that out of an This day, uniform with " Stronghand," price 25., QMUGGLER CHIEF. kJ A Tale of Life and Adventure. By G. AIMARD. London: Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street. Having come to the conclusion that malaria was the prime cause of disease in India, and haying insisted upon the ex pediency of its being removed;Zi far as possible, the Com missioners proceed to deal with the other influences by which the health of the soldier serving in India is affected. This part of the inquiry they preface by a brief gene ral statement of the nature of his services, from which it appears that the usual recruitin g age lies between 20 and 35 years, but that a great many lads under the age of 20 enlist. The average time spent by these recruits at the depot at Warley before embarking tor India was, pre vious to the mutiny, four months, while during the mutiny it was only six weeks. The evidence goes to show that this system of recruiting is open to grave objection, on the ground that many of the men were obliged to undergo labo rious duties in a tropical climate at too early an age, while the period allowed for drill was too short, inasmuch as it rendered further drill necessary after the recruit arrived in India, under circumstances not so favourable as those enjoyed at home. Indeed, the great bulk of the evidence on this point is to the effect that no recruit ought to be sent out to India under 20, and that these who are sent out should be fully drilled. The practice of issuing spirits to the recruits, too, on their passage out, which formerly prevailed, but which has been so far modified by the latest Queen's regulations as to render it necessary that the spirits should be mixed with three parts of water, and not issued till after dinner, is strongly condemned by the great majority of the wit nesses, as predisposing to disease. Formerly, it may be added, little or no attention was paid to the time of the year at which men were landed in India, and after landing they were forwarded to their destination without much re gard to season or means of conveyance. The evils of this system were, as stated by Col. Durand, to a considerable extent abated under the administration of Lord Ellenborough and a very appreciable diminution in the susceptibility of the newly-arrived troops to disease was found to be the re sult. Having joined his regiment, the soldier's duties in India consist in time of peace for the most part of the usual guards, and of drills and parades before sunrise and at sun set, and, so far as these duties are concerned, the Commis- Boners are of opinion that he cannot be said to be exposed to excessive fatigue in their discharge. Following up his history after his arrival in India, they are compelled to look for other causes besides the nature of his duties or the prevalence of malaria in order to account for the vastly greater mortality which exists in the soldier's case than in the civil officer. In the prosecution of this in quiry they find that many of the stations occupied by Bri tish troops—and this circumstance operates equally to the prejudice of the offieer—are either within or close to cities and towns, the inhabitants of which are decimated periodically by fevers and are exposed to the influence of the same sanitary defects from which the civil population so largely suffers. Sir It. Martin, in his evidence, says that those stations, and indeed the stations generally throughout India, have been selected without any special regard to sanitary consi derations, and that ne station which he had ever visited .eeee cue uuu.un of matana. All the stations, it appears, are surface drained, but this, with very few ex ceptions, is the only form of drainage to which they have been subjected, and it is proved to be utterly insufficient to carry away the fluid refuse which accumulates in large quantities. In fact, all the stational reports go to show that the drainage of Indian stations, on a well• digested plan to suit local circumstances, is a work of urgent necessity for improving the health of the army. Of equal importance is it, as is clearly demonstrated by the evidence, that the water supply of the different stations should be placed upon an improved footing. At present the stations as well as the town in India derive their supply from three sources— tanks, wells, and ricers ; and the results of analysis, so far as it has been carried are by no means satisfactory as regards the purity of the supply. Dr. R. D. Thomp son, the officer of health for the district of Marylebone, who has visited India, describes the state of the Indian tanks as " quite shocking," while the mode of distributing the water by means of water carriers, called bheesties, who draw it from its source to the barracks, and then empty it into such vessels as may happen to be at hand, as pro nounced by Dr Letheby—who stated in his evidence that he was disposed to rank impure water above the impure air as one of the most powerful causes of disease—to be open to great object. The testimony of Dr Sutherland upon this point is to the effect that the present condition of the water supply is one of the cardinal defects in the sanitary arrange ments of India, and that it is undiuestionably a predispos ing cause of disease, especially during the seasons when the cholera, fever, dysentery, and other zymotic diseases usually make their appearance. With this evidence before them, the commissioners deem it their duty to dwell upon the expedi ency of instituting a chemical investigation of all the water sources at the several stations, with the view of improving them—either by the adoption of precautionary measures, di minishing the risk of pollution, or by the creation of a purer supply. The remaining influences pre-disposing to disease are of a nature which tell almost exclusively on the health of the common soldier. aggregate British force of 25,443 men serving in periods of eight and ten years respectively in the stations of Calcutta, Chinsurah, and Berhampore—all in Bengal Propel—there occurred 8,499 cases of dysentery. He adds that the cli- NOTICE.— BERTIE BRAY.—The Second Edition of this new Novel, by the Author of "Six Victor's Choice," is now ready. Also by same Author, THE CROSS OF HONOUR. Price 2s. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. White silk trimmed with straw ornaments is very fashion' able wear, and has been some weeks. It must be admitted straw trimmings have a very capital effect upon the material in question. Seaside or marine jackets are invariably cut straight. They are trimmed with pearl buttons, or fringe, or jet. They are made with two round pockets. It is very fashionable to wear a petticoat of the same material as the dress, This is especially the case where the material is white alpaca; although, for that matter, white alpaca petticoats are good wear with any toilette, under the one condition that they are very elegantly trimmed. The Moors, Forests, and Rivers. mate of Lower Bengal has always been very unfavourable to the health of Europeans, but that in the Presidency of Ma- THE LATEST NEW NOVELS. BE R TIE BRA Y. By the Author of " SIR VICTOR'S CHOICE," &C. dray the disease prevails to nearly an equal extent. The proportion in which it attacks the British as com pared with the native soldiery is as 11 to 1; but in both cases. when not arrested at once, it proves D ANGEROUS CONNEXIONS. In Three Vols. quickly fatal, or lays the foundation of chronic suffering extending over years. Next to dysentery in fa tality, but of more frequent occurrence, are the remittent THE MAN IN CHAINS, By the Author of " SACKVILLE CHASE," &C. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. fevers, which are found almost everywhere throughout the East Indies, varying in their intensity and in their cowpli•• cations according as they occur in low marshy lands, or in drier and more elevated tracts of country. The seaboard, where there is jungle or salt marsh, and the adjacent islands are peculiarly liable to the ravages of this 20th Thousand, prioe Is., DR. HARVEY ON CORPULENCE.—Its diminution and cure without injury to health, with Remarks upon the Maladies produced by obesity : CA.NCER and CONSUMPION. New and painless treat ment. Price ls. By JOHN liARVEY, M.D., 9, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. pestilence. Out of an average British force of 23 731 men serving in Bengal, there were in seven years 14,159 cases of fever, and throughout India fifty per cent, of all the admissions into hospital are reported to have arisen from that cause, Diseases of the liver, too, are very frequent, and in the acute stages the Smith and Co., 52, Long-acre. danger to life is so imminent that recovery more or less complete within two or three days or deaths furnishes tho history of almost every case. Acute inflammation of the fiver Would appear to be essentially a disease of the hot plains, and the deadliness of its nature may be judged by the fact that the risk of death is greater from one attack of it than from 13 of fever of the various forms as they ordi narily occur in India. Cholera, however, is the most acute of all the diseases which scourge the country, and, like inflammation of• the liver, almost always ends in the immediate recovery or death of the suf• ferer. This disease has been known to prevail as an occasional epidemic in different years, seasons, and places throughout India, from 1774 to 1817 ; but ever since it would seem to have engrafted itself on the endemics of the soil, and has become of annual recurrence at many of the larger stations, commencing generally at the beginning of the hot, but sometimes in the rainy and cold, season. In India, as all over the world, it acts with the same fatal rapidity. There, as elsewhere, its tendency is to attack populations living in low, damp, crowdel, and ill-vend- lated situations, especially when supplied with im pure water. When the water is pure cholera and epidemic diseases in general are of rare occurrence in the elevated parts of the country. Troops, both European and native, have been :observed to become more liable to the disease while on the mareh,:and when attacked by it after a length ened march its virulence has been found to be increased in intensity. The proportion of deaths out of every 100 Euro peans serving in the Presidency of Bombay between 1830 and 1846 attributable to each of the four great endemic dis eases enumerated was as follows—Dysentery and diarrhoea, 32.441; fevers, 23.054 ; c.holera. 10.320: diseases of the liver_ 9597. The dreadful fatality of these diseases is rendered evident to the eye by means of diagrams prefixed to the report, which show at a glance how wide is the scope of their action compared with that of all the other cause 4 of of mortality put together. Among the infantry of the line serving at home from 1859 to 1861 the deaths from zymotic diseases did not amen - tit to 1 per annum in I,COO living; in the European army serving in Bengal between the years 1830 and 1845 they amounted to 68 in every 1,000. To this class of diseases, therefore, is to be attributed the great difference which exists between the mortality of the soldier in the two countries, and its action being reduced to the same level in both there would not be an average of quite two in 1,000 in their respective death-rates in favour of England. Indeed, the mortality from lung and tubercular diseases is shown to be as 3to 4.2 in 1,000 living in favour of the Indian service, while that from all other diseases, besides those which have been mentioned as so peculiarly fatal, is not very largely against it, With those facts before them the commission ers of course find little difficulty in arriving at the conclu sion that if it were possible wholly to put an end to the deaths arising from the various classes of fevers, cholera, and dysentery, to which they add hepathis and its conse quences, the troops in India would be as healthy as any body of men in the world. The practical part of their inquiry, therefore, resolves itself into ascertaining, as far as possible, the causes of those diseases, and de termining by what means their occurrence might be pre vented or their virulence mitigated, _ . The problem which they set themselves to solve is. it may be observed, one not peculiar to India. Zymotic diseases have always been the chief causes of mortality in uncivilised or imperfectly civilised countries, and they have been the special scourge of armies, Whole regions of the earth which were formerly devastated by fever and dysen tery have long since been freed from their baneful in fluence except in the milder forms, in which they now form part of the ordinary mortality. Why, then, might sot the same happy result bo brought about in India? In quiry, the Commissioners say, proves that intermittent fever has disappeared from localities which it formerly ravaged, after the soil had been drained and the cultivation improved, while cholera and dysentery are known to depend mainly, for their frequency and se ' verity, on the neglect of well ascertained sani tary precautions. May it not be, then, that the mortality in India is attributable to causes which are re movable and not inherent in the very nature of the soil and climate ? In prosecuting this part of their inquiry, the Commissioners enter into en examination of the topography of the country ; the sanitary condition of the several canton ments, barracks, hospitals, bazaars, and neighbouring native towns—the source, quality, amount, and means of distribu tion of water supply—the diet, drink, clothing, accoutre ments, duties, and recreations of the soldier, as well as the effect of all these things upon his health under different conditions. The examination had to be conducted over an immense range of territory. India extends over 26 deg. north latitude. It has a superficial area of 1,500,000 square miles inclosed on the north, east, and west by gigantic mountain ranges for 4,600 miles, and along its southern, eastern, and western sides by 4,500 miles of tropical sea board. Much of the country consists of plains traversed by large rivers, having deltas projecting into the ocean, and hardly raised above its level. In other parts there are ex tensive tablelands of greater or_ less elevation, rising from the plains. Along the west coast there is a continu ous range of mountains intercepting the warm moist winds coming from the Indian Ocean, and influencing the climate for a considerable distance inland. Here and there are to be found solitary mountain groups of altitudes varying from 3,000 ft to 5,000 ft, and presenting, owing to their elevation, climate very different from those of the plains on which they look down. The northern barrier of the Himalaya consists of a succession of ,ranges increasing in height as they recede towards the north until they attain altitudes cf from 3to 5 miles, On the plains India enjoys perpetual summer, but the sensible effects of its climate vary as widely as the phi sical character of the country itself. Th© climate is hot and moist, with considerable rain-fall on the plains and deltas. In the southern parts of India heat and dryness prevail. Along the mountain ranges the temperature falls with the elevation, and at cer tain altitudes diminution of heat is accompanied by a per ceptible moisture in the air. The climates of the seaboards vary with the direction of the wind. Sometimes they are comparatively cool, while at others they are warm, moist, and depressing. The climates of certain isolated moun tains, groups, and table lauds are almost as healthy as those of Southern Europe, while at the base of those very same mountains there are local climates which are absolutely pestilential. At the majority of the stations occupied by the British troops the evidence goes to show that a high mean tempera ture prevails. At many of them there is, it appears a consi derable difference between the day and night temperature, accompanied by night and morning fogs. Indeed, heat, moisture, and the great variations in some localities between the night and day temperature are the three special climatic couditions to which the soldier is exposed, and, Fashions for the theMOnth. (From Les Modes Parisiennes.) Certainly the last month has beet:most devoid of all im portant change in fashion. Indeed, there is scarcely any change in actual fashion to write about. Skirts are worn of the train behind. precisely as they were—scanty i n f ront t o increase the effect The round bodices, to which we referred in our last as once again making their appearance; appear to have received a —temporary buckles, to accommodate which the tempora ry d reas on bodices h PcrarY beyond all doubt from the simple again introduced, are keeping in public favour. Sl e eves, if anything, are looser that' they were, The coat e that e c k the were r oun sleeve, however, is still the prevailing mode, the cuff being modified, so that the entire sleeve does not so forcibly re mind the observer as it did of the model whence this fashion was taken. _______ Girdles, or half bodices, as some of them may now be called, still continue to be worn, their shape being m a de to agree, by the exercise of much ingenuity, with the tailed bodices which still remain prevalent. Zonave , and so al so a t th e seas ide and i n th countryae still ea il a l r s iTl i di shirts. These, h owev er, are verymuchjackets em broidered. Perhaps the only actual novelty in the way of dres s i s the introduction of a double-skirted toilette in silk, th e un d e r skirt of which is made in one silk, while the upp er , o pen down the front, and looped up, together with the bodice and the sleeves, are made of a totally different silk, trimmed however with the silk of the under skirt. even at the ed ges of th e Of trimmings the only marked change since l as t mon th is that of the introduction of the saw-edge or zi g _ zag pattern j t a r i c m k e m t s i ng. This , sleeve—while its application in a hundred v ar i ous ways to at th T e s is hemsof used skirts, in every way —at the e d ges of flat patterns is very remarkable. Flat trimmings are qui e a necessity at the present time. No one, who is any one, cares about any other style. Espe• daily as a hem trimming are these flat bands used. We have seen some very pretty effects by the use of hem bands of black velvet upon striped white timeline. Of bonnets, it may bo said that the small shape is gain ing ground, perhaps all the more rapidly because it affords the opportunity of displaying the hair-dressin g . They are made a little larger than they were a moat h ago, but they are stili crownless, and almost frontless. Many of the best milliners, while abandoning the curtain, finish ver to yabso t l h u e te w ly h r o e le p . l ee Drawnit by aand puffed ruche, tulle bonnets are , which gives a good now in their glory, for the abolition of the lat e b onnet shape in favour of something like a cap admits at once of the use of puffed tulle. While talking of bonnets, we would strongly advise ladies when purchasing the new shape to be very careful in their choice, for now, more than ever, does the success of the bonnet depend upon the proportionate size it bears to the head and features of the wearer. White muslins are fashionably made over blue and rose under skirts, while, quite as fashionably, two equally deep white lace flounces are added, which are beaded and some- ' .4....*;;,1 • .. . • •• .:,.N, ~. 1114121:2C::;•.!:•i.,... ,'", . . \ A I /*..... ''',. . . . .., 41 / 4 4 4 ' Z' -' .; ti^ - , , _ .. . -,-.. e ' . 11 1 . --:Ar.,' :-. , l 4 :, 4,.01- ...' ...--, ''":,...-.7::::::::::::;11i7.1 4*44411'‘7A-.... ‘ --' . :::41'.. ' ' '' .....; •:: . -....-‘' . ..t.: 7: 1: ...p.. f 3: . ,':..„.';&:(076,1 '' f.; 1 1:i. k : . .-N' - 11) 4 -,. ' W 81.44 40,f, _..... 1 ... . .. .-. , -•: 1 ' :4:; 1.r..e . ,;,_ , . , _. ~,..- ....# " ---4-I,e ...-15:4k41111111'rw!- ..,X l lk .--. ; ' ~'. . 4 ,1 ' Alr , ' i ~ .. - '• I fq 4 IE 4 ' 4 ii r, s,' . , )111. tli 360 1 :, e 50, M&riret::: :'-: '' .' ' • . • Clipr'N.:,..... 4.r• • "--)5,,. 7111 .^:, . II IE 1 l 7( , Alirtlo4 , ‘" •,-, times framed in a taffetas ruche of the colour of the under skirt. Even, however, in muslin dresses the prevailing tendency to flat trimming is observed in the shape of flat taffetas ribbons, covered with aerophane, which is slightly plated from distance to distance. This trimming substi tutes flounces and puff, both of which certainly appear heavy and vulgar under the present regime ot flat trim mings. Every white muslin dress is, as a rule, made with a corresponding jacket, trimmed in exact accordance, the sleeves being trimmed at the armpits, while a small collar gives a finish to the toilette. Of mantles and shawls we have little to say. The Montespan shawl-mantle, it we may use the term, appears to be creating quite a sensation at Baden amongst French society. It is a question of a shawl made either of white clear muslin edged with white lace, or ot black tulle edged with black lace, and headed with a ruche of some high coloured taffetas. The " effect" is got out of the upper half square which is made to form a hood, and which, when worn over the head, produces a charming effect. Thrown back, it forms part of the shawl, and adds a new effect to it. It should be added that, when not used as a hood, the half square resumes the natural flat pointed shape of the upper portion of the ordinary shawl. By the way, straw colour is the fashionable colour of the month—especially in light materials for ball dresses. Gauze dresses are frequently patched in a remarkable manner with light ribbons; indeed, in some cases, this style has been carried to such an extent that it may, without exaggeration, be called the mode harlequin. Cloaks and dresses of the same material, especially fou lard, are truly distinguished wear; the higher the tone the more fashionable the wear. White, however, is the reign ing favourite. These toilettes are trimmed with ruches and fringe, which harmonise and never contrast with the mate rial used. Narrow lace also maintains its sway, giving, as it does, a certain suppleness and absolute finish to the toilette. On mantles and dresses many large buttons are worn, while the latter ana generally furnished with the great , buelEle which has come into wear. CRIEFF.—The sport on the various moors in this district continues excellent. The grouse, however, are now very wild and are packing, and it requires good marksmen to be successful. On Monday the 22d, the Earl of Wilton bagged on the Lochearnside moors 33 brace of grouse ; on Tuesday his lordship went deer-stalking in the forest of Glenartney, and killed a heavy stag ; on Wednesday his lordship shot 28 brace of grouse, 4 snipes and a few hares. On the hill of Monzie, Colonel Home Purvis bagged, on the 24th, 17 brace of grouse; and Sir Hume Campbell, Bart., shot 16 brace of grouse and 2 blackcocks on the 25th. At Garrows, on Tues day and Wednesday, Messrs Russell and Crawford killed 50 brace of grouse, besides other game. AYRSHlRE.—Blackgame shooting commenced on Satur day, and where parties delayed opening fire on the grouse till they could shoot blackgame as well, good mixed bags were obtained. So far as we could see or learn, blackgame have not improved in the same proportion as the grouse. There was some cold wet weather in the spring, which is supposed to have affected the hatching of blackgame after the grouse had run. At all events, the birds are not plen tiful, and many of the old hens have only three or four fol lowers, and some have no broods—casualties from which the grouse this season were almost entirely free. Where there are good broods the birds are pretty well grown, though we have seen them much heavier at the commencement of the season. If the hens ate spared, however, there is a good enough appearance to give promise that like the grouse, having rallied after two bad years, they will show plentiful produce, if the season be favourable, in 1865. The un broken sunshine which has prevailed since the 12th, though delightful to the sportsmen, has carried death to the moor game, by inviting prolonged shooting. A couple of days of wet weather would have put them all is packs, and left a much larger breeding stock for next seascv.—Ayr Adver tiser. INVERNESS-SHIRE, &c.—ln consecuonaa of this broken weather of the week, sportsmen did not turn out in such numbers as during the first few days of the shoot ing; and, consequently, our notes are somewhat limited. Reports from almost all quarters bear testimony to the strength and high condition of the grouse, and the forests are spoken of in terms of equal praise. On the 18th, on Laggan Cottage moors, Capt. the Hon. F. C. Howard, of th 6 Coldstream Guards, bagged 20 brace of grouse and 2 snipes, and on the 20th, 161 brace of grouse. Otte cf Sir Joseph Hawley's party at Laggan Cottage bagged 141 brace on the 23d. Mr Wil.son, at Ness Park, killed 121 brace on the first day on which he was out. At Knockie, on the 13th, Major Wardlaw and Col, Adair bagged 17 brace of grouse, and on the 15th in five hours' shooting,2l brace and 2 hares. At Lakefield, on the 12th, Mr John G. Blake had 101 brace —on the 15th, 10 brace—and next day 16 brace. Shooting over his estate of Foyers, Mr F. Walker bagged on the 12th 28 brace of grouse, and on the 16th 9 brace, On the Kingussie moors, on the 15th, Mr. 'Wilson shot 7 brace of grouse, and on the 16th killed 27 brace. The Earl of Seafield bagged 21 brace grouse, 2 snipes, and 1 hare at Balmacaan on Monday. These birds were strong and healthy—no appearance of disease. The late opportune showers of rain have done good on the hills as well as on the low grounds. The following sport has been obtained by Sir Chas. Ross, Bart., of Balnagown : —On the 12th, on the moors of Kincardine Hill, 21 brace of grouse and 1 hare. The grouse are, in point of numbers, a fair average, but the broods are very unequal in size and numbers, some consisting of only one young bird—the largest broods num ber as many as nine. The average of the whole broods seen would be about four birds. Many were young—evi dently a second hatching—while others were so well grown as to be difficult to distinguish from the old birds. There are a good many barren pairs, but no diseased birds have been seen. On the 16th, Sir Charles commenced shooting about 10.30 a.m. at the Halfway House, parish of Edder - ton, and having ceased about four, bagged 171 brace of grouse and one snipe. Tho portion of this moor tra velled over would not exceed three square miles. Sir Charles was out on the 18;h instant, when, in a few heave, he shot 15 brace of grouse—and again on the 20th, when he bagged 19 brace. The after part of this day was very stormy, with heavy showers of hail, and the birds were very wild. The grouse were numerous and the broods large. The young birds aro well grown; in some instances they are as large as the old ones, and they are rather wild. The average number in the broods will be about seven. Only two very young birds and two pairs of barren ones were seen, and there was no appearance of die. I ease. At Braemore, on the 12th, Lords Alexander and Berkeley Paget killed in five olden plovers 26/ brace grouse, 4 2g p. On the 15th L or d hares, 4 snipes, and Alexander Paget shot, after half-past 4 o'clock, 81 brace of grouse, 1 hare, and 1 snipe. On the 16th Lord Berkeley raga and Captain Killington bagged 24 brace of grouse, '2 bares , 3 snipe's, 1 plover, and 1 duck. On the 18th Lord Berkeley Paget, in four hours, 23i brace of grouse, 3 hares, and 1 snipe ; a2d on the 20th the Earl of Uxbridge and Captain Billington bagged 18 brace of grouse, 3 hares, and 1 snipe. On the Olenfield moors, on thee 15th, Mr S. Hargreaves shot 16 brace ; Mr G. P. Hill, 14 brace, Capt. Scott, 11 brace ; Rev. C. W. Leslie, 17 brace. On the 17th, Captain Scott bagged 17i brace ; Rev. C. W. Leslie, 18 brace; Mr Samuel Hargreaves, 26 brace ; and Mr G. P. Hill, 18 brace. On the 19th Mr Samuel Hargreaves had a bag of 28 brace ; Captain Scott had 14 brace, and Rev. C. W. Leslie, 13 brace. On the Invercherron moors Captain Whittingstall and friend have had good sport. On the 15th they had a bag of 69 brace ; on the 16th, 50 brace ; on the 17th, C 4 brace ; on the 18th, 72 brace ; on the 19th, 58 brace; and on the 20th theyhad 2 roe deer, 2 brace grouse, 2 wood cocks, and 3 hares. From Strathbran we learn that the sportsmen are now in all their shooting quarters. There are plenty of grouse, and not a diseased bird to be seen. Mr Morrison, who has taken a lease, has bad good sport; he killed about 90 brace, besides hares, in two or three days. The forests are also doing well, and the deer aro in splendid condition. Since the opening of the season, Mr J. Fitz gerald and party, at Strath Garve, have bagged upwards of 150 brace of grouse. The Hon. Messrs Calthorpe and Mr G. Drummond shot 50 brace of grouse and 12 hares on the 18th, at Highfield. On the Fodderty moors Mr R. M. 0. Massey and party bagged 300 brace of grouse in four days, Mr Massey, jun., shot 33 brace in one day.—lnvcr ss [AnvEaTisnmENT.l—Tiolloway's Ointment and Pills. — Redemption from Disease,—The hidden cause, the unsus pected source of many a wasting sickness and failing strength has been developed by these admirable Pills, and the application of the Ointment to the malady thus disco vered has rescued many valuable lives from a continued torture and premature end. Pills in all the many forms under which they afflict mankind, fistulas, strictures, infla mations, ulcerations internal, external, recent or chronic, are thus safely and speedily brought to a state of ease and thence conducted to a lasting perfect cure. Both Ointment awl Pills are innocent in composition ; both are healing, purifying and comforting; both are gentle in operation anti assist each other, ever helping, never harming nature's acknowledged laws. PRICE ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. The Pneumatic Railway at Sydeitham. On Saturday the Crystal Palace grounds were the scene of a novel and very interesting experiment. A series of trial trips on the model Pneumatic Railway recently constructed there, under the superinten dence of Mr. Rim:nen, C.E., took place with perfect success in the preeence of several eminent engineers and scientific men, A brick work tunnel, about 10fr. hi g h by Oft. wide, and capable of adinittin,r the largest. carriages used on the Groat Western nail way, has been laid with a single line of rails, fitted with opening and closing valves at either extremity and supplied with all the other requisite apparatus for propelling passenger trains on the pneumatic principle. The tunnel, or tube, extends from the Sydenhem entrance of the grounds to the Armoury, near the Penge-gate, a distance of nearly 600 yards. The object of laying down this experimental line is to afford, both to the scientific world and the tra velling public, a practical demonstration of the ap plicability to passenger traffic of the motive power already employed by the Pneumatic Despatch Com pany in the conveyance of letters and parcels. The pneumatic principle of propulsion is very simple. It has been likened to the action of a pea-shooter—a rough kind of comparison, perhaps, yet one suffi ciently accurate as a popular illustration. The tunnel may be taken to represent the pea-shooter, and the train the pea, which is driven along in one direction by a strong blast of air, and drawn back again in the opposite direction by the exhaustion of the air in front of it. The train may be said, in fact, to be blown through the tube on the down journey, and sucked through it on the return journey. It must not, however, be supposed that the passengers are deposited at their destination with a sudden jerk, as the simile we have used might seem to imply. Such an inconvenience is entirely obviated by the mechanical arrangements employed. The motion is throughout smooth, easy, and agreeable, and the stoppages are effected gently and gra dually. Indeed, when it is considered that the curve in the tunnel is unusually sharp, being of eight chains radius, and that the gradients are as high as 1 in 15 (those of liolborn-hill being only 1 in 18), it is surprising that the motion should be so much steadier and pleasanter than ordinary rail• way travelling. The journey of 600 yards was per formed either way in about 50 seconds, with an at. mospheric pressure of only 21 ounces to the square inch ; but a higher rate of speed, if desirable, can easily be obtained consistently with safety. Indeed, one great incidental advantage of this species of loco motion is that it excludes all risks of the collisions occasionally attendant on railway travelling, for it is plain that no two trains could ever run fall tilt against each other where all the propelling force is expended in one direction at one time. The worst mishap which it is said could well happen is that, owing to some sudden failure in the machinery, the train might be abruptly brought to a dead stop in the middle of the tunnel, when the passengers would have to alight from the carriages and grope their way as best they could out of the tube. Such a predicament certainly would not be enviable, but it might be more ludicrous than dangerous. Whe ther in such a contingency there is any possibility of another train being started before they had safely made their exit, or any risk of their sharing the fate of frogs placed under an exhausted air pump, we do not venture to assert, but probably the scien tific engineer could guarantee the traveller against any such novel peril. The train used on Saturday comisted of one very long, roomy, and comfortable carriage, resembling en elongated omnibus, and capable of accommodating some 30 or 35 passengers. PassengErs enter this c%rrkge at either end, and he entrances kre closed wits eliding glass doors. Fixed behind th carriage there is a framework of the dam° form and nearly the same dimenßious as tiro .cetional area of the tui.).,l and attached to the outer edge of this frame is a fringe of bristles form ing a thick brush. As the carriage moves along through the tunnel th© brush comes in close conttict with the arched brickwork, so as to prevent the escape of the air. With this elastic collar round it, the carriage forms a close fitting piston, against which the propulsive force is directed. The motive power is supplied in this way :—At the departure station a large fan•wheel, with an iron disc, con cave in surface and 22 feet in diameter, is made to revolve by the aid of a small stationary engine at such speed as may be required, the pressure of the air increasing, of course, according to the rapidity of the evolutions, and thus generating the force ne cessary to send the heavy carriage up a steeper in cline than is to be found upon any existing railway. The disc gyrates in an iron case resembling that of a huge paddlewheel ; and from its broad periphery the particles of air stream off in strong currents. When driving the air into the upper end of the tunnel to propel the down train fresh quantities rush to the surface of the disc to supply the partial vacuum thus created ; and, on the other hand, when the disc is exhausting the air in the tunnel with the view of drawing back the up-train, the air rushes out like an artificial hurricane from the escape valves of the disc case, making the adjacent trees shake like reeds and almost blowing off his feet any incautious spectator who approaches too near it. When the down journey is to be performed the breaks aro taken off the wheels, and the carriage moves by its own momentum into the month of the tube, passing in its course over a deep air-well in the floor, covered with an iron grating. Up this opening a gust of wind is sent by the disc, when a valve, formed by a pair of iron doors, hung like lock-gates, immediately closes firmly over the en- trance of the tunnel, confining the increasing a mospheric pressure between the valve and the rear of the carriage. The force being thus brought to bear upon the end of the train, the latter, shut up within the tube, glides smoothly along towards its destination,the revolving disc keeping up the motive power until it reaches the steep incline, whence its own momentum again suffices to carry it the rest of the distance. The return journey, as above indict cated, is effected by the aid of the exhausting pro• cess. At a given signal a valve is opened, and the disc-wheel set to work in withdrawing the air from the tube. Near the upper end of the tube there is a large aperture, or side•vault, which forms the throat through which the air is, so to speak, exhaled, the iron doors at the upper terminus still being kept abut. In a second or two the train posted at the lower terminus, yielding to the exhausting process going on in its front, and urged by the ordinary pressure of the atmosphere from behind, moves off on its upward journey, and rapidly ascending the incline approaches the iron gates, which fly open to receive it, and it emerges at once into daylight. Such is the mode in which the system works, and it seems capable of being adapted to railway comma• nication within the metropolis and other large towns, or wherever tunnelled lines with steep gradients exist. The chief obstacles encountered in practically working the atmospheric railway, introduced some 15 years ago, are considered to have been effectually overcome by the present modification of the princi ple. Under the former system the tube was of a very small size, and fixed upon the ground ; a lengi tudinal;or continuous valve opening at the top, along which a rod, connecting the piston with the car riages, passed, and the valve closing behind the rod as it moved onwards. The amount of atmospheric pressure required to be exerted where the area of the tube was so small was enormous, being from 71b to 101 b per square inch ; whereas upon Mr Ram mell's principle the pressure is only 21ez per square inch, and, moreover, the great leakage and waste of power which rendered the old atmosphere system so costly in working are hero in great measure avoided. It need hardly be added that the worst drawbacks to travelling through tunnels—viz., the smoke and sulphureous vapours emitted from the locomotive and the close, unwholesome atmosphere of the tunnels themselves—are in thie case got rid of. Every train, in fact, carries its own THE NEW DICTIONARY. 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Price, Esq., solicitor, 24, Abchurch lane, B.C. ; and at the auctioneer's offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. New Barnet.—Freehold Semi-detached Villas. R. ANDREW MIND will SELL by AtlC km. TION. at GARRAWAY'S, Change-alley, Cornhill, on TUESDAY, August 30, 1864, at One o'clock, the conve nient FREEHOLD Seven-roomed HOUSES, Nos. 1 and 2, Lancaster-road, New Barnet, near the railway station, with front and back gardens, now let at £44 per annum, but pos session of one may be had if desired. May be viewed and particulars, with conditions of sale, had at Garraway's ; and at the auctioneer's offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. Pinner.—Freehold Building Land. 74R b E ,a L u l t i f b ui r ly A si U tu C a TN e I n O ear shortly,. A 11D 23 • Acres lN o p f LAND, beautifully the village, and about a mile from the station. The plots will contain from half an acre to two .ores and upwards. The estate is well wooded, and has a stream of water flowing through it. Residents on this property will be entitled to the privileges of Harrow School, and the occupant of each house of the value ( f £5O per annum will receive a free first class railway ticket to London for thirteen years. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. ( ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, ind Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, Am, in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, dm Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine. ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY, and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MlNE (claw} Y is given by Mr. TENNANr, at 149. Strand- W.C. pINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA has been, during thirty years, emphatically sanctioned by the Medical Profession, and universally accepted by the public, as the Best Remedy for Acidity of the Stomach. Heartburn. Headache, Gout, and Indigestion, and as a Mild Aperient for delicate constitutions, more esp , ciilly for Ladies and Children. Combined with the Accidniated Lemon Syrup it forms an agreeable Effervescing Draught, in which its Aperient qualities are much increased. During Hot Seasons, and, above all, in Hot Climates, the regular use of this sim ple and e egant remedy has been found highly beneficial. Manufac t ur ed (with the utmost attention to strength and purity) by DINNEFORD and CO., 172, New Bond-street, London ; and hold by all respectable Chemists throughout the Empire. supply of fresh air along with it, and also F xpels the foul air before it. The public will have ample opp ortur it;es of judging for themselves of the merits of thi s inven tion. The railway will be open during t he whole of this week, when visitors to the Pah te 3 will be able to test it by personally travelling n,p an it. Alarming Railway Accicleni . ACCRINGTON, Sa. turday. An alarming accident took place at th e railway hero last night, which might, if it had not occurred at so late an hour, have been at:ended wit h a ter rible sacrifice) of life. Between nine and tot o'clock last night tin excursion train, consisting of a.:bout 30 empty carriages, which had been stan.din for some time near the Accrington Railway sit:, cion, were taken ur the incline on the Manchester 1-yr inch of line by two engines, one la; ing in front ari the other at the rear. When the train bad been r u n up the embankment a short distance, the rear giee left the carriagee- attached to the one in front far the purpose of getting upon another line. In a fa V, moments after the last engine had left the tra in, the coupling chain between the second and car riage from the bead engine broke, and 28 of the carriages ran back at a tremendous speed. The down engine shunted off the line soon after they broke loose, and the carriages, when they paseted it, were runnin g at a rapid rate. Two guards happened to be on the runaway carriages at the time, and they put on breaks for the purpose of checking their im.. petus ; but in this respect their efforts were quite, useless, and finding that their position was becomin g more alarming every second, and that a terrible smash must soon ensue somewhere, they jumpt d off the carriages, and luckily were not at all injurt d in doing so. The carriages ran ahead down the line, near the Blackburn siding ; they were turned off the main line by a pointsman, but they had not gone far before a great crash took pl ac e. Oa the line they were running there were two carriages standing, The clown carriages came into collision with them, bat they were not at first t h rown o ff the rails, and all dashed forward at a spe e d towar d 6 the station. The two carriages alluded to bound-!d forward when struck, but the runaways speedil y overtook them and ran them on the rails, followi ng the same course themselves immediately afterwards. Here the accident assumed a most alarming c h ae racter—the carriages were crushing into each tether, rearing up and rolling over in all directions, and the fearful momentum they bad obtained caused them to spread general destruction. Wheels, huge pieces of iron, foot-boards, glass, carriage sides, halts, and chains literally strewed the ground. The crash was terrible and the damage immense. Five of the carriages—a first, three second, and one third —were completely broken to pieces, Happily, n( ) one was in the carriages, If they had been occupied every soul would have been cut up and killed on the spot. If also the pointsman had not turned the carriages upon the siding when they were cotoing down the embankment there would have been a dreadful catastrophe at the station. A passenger train was waiting there when the carriages broke loose, and it could not by any possibility have got off the line, neither could the passengers have got out of the carriages in which they were seated in time to have escaped the collision which, must have ensued. After the accident several of t.;`ita railway officials were soon on the spot, and they secured a number of men to clear the read, A huge fire was made of the broken timber of the carriages for the men to work by. It was not until this morning that the debris was got out of the way. To-day numbers, of people have visited the scene of the accident out of curiosity. The affair created much excitemeat throughout the town and neighbourhood, for it lette, put many in mind of the dreadful accident which happened on the same branch of railway, and aLteost under similar circumstances, at Helmshore, it few years ago. On that occasion the carriages of au excursion train broke loose from the engine, an d ran down an incline, the results of which are known to all. There can be no doubt that the cheek which the rear carriage's would experience w-hxn left by the engine was the sole cause o the acnident lest night. The coupling between thecarrisgles is bruhen hut appears t o b e at the end of the screw. strong and sound, and nothing but a strain upon the metal which it was never intended to bear could. have snapped it. Loyd Wharucliffe ozi the New Penal Servitude Act. _es , At the West Riding Intermediate Sessions, at Sleiffreld, held on Friday, Lord Wharnc;iffe pre sided, and took the opportunity of making a re mark or two with reference to the changes that have been lately introduced by the legislature in the operation of the sentences pronounced at assizes and quarter sessions. Formerly there was a great deal of uncertainty in regard to the strictness or otherwise with which sentences of penal servitudii were carried out. This was considered to be a great evil, and the legislature had passed an act during the last session, the effect of which was that when a sentence of penal servitude was passed there could be no doubt of the proportion of the time that the convict must serve. It had been wisely decided, however, still to leave room for certain remissions, as rewards, not for ordinary good conduct, but for increased industry and special good conduct, which would doubtless be accepted as denoting a desire to reform. Under the new regulations, no sentence of penal servitude could be passed for less than five years, and the first nine months must be passed by the convict in'solitary imprisonment. The remain der of the term is capable of diminution to the ex• tent of one-fourth in case of the convict's superior conduct and industry, but he must serve three years and four months out of the four years and three months. Again, a prisoner who had been previously convicted of felony, could not be sentenced to a less term of penal servitude than seven years. There were other provisions as to the granting revocation of tickets-of-leave, which he need not dwell upon ; but the act appeared to him to be a most salutary one, and well calculated to deter persons from crime because of the certainty of their punishment being made a reality. Another topic of considerable in terest he would briefly refer to, namely, the change that had taken place since the last sessions by the holding of assizes at Leeds. The grand jury were aware that there had been an antagonism between various towns, and that the Privy Council had de cided to give the assizes to Leeds; and it was not for him to say—although ho opposed the change— that they had not decided wisely. The town of Sheffield had done all that was within their power to get the assizes held here ; but he wished it to go before the public as widely as possible, that, in his opinion, the town could not fairly call upon Govern ment to incur any expense or to give them the ad vantage of assizes, whilst they neglected to do that which almost every other large town had done, namely, to appoint their own recorder, and have separate quarter sessions for their borough. If Shef field wished to attain the position which Leeds had secured, she must begin by doing as Leeds did—ap• point a recorder and get a court of borough sessions. Justice would be better administer e d b y a recorder, who would be, of course, well acq ua i nte d w i t h t h e law, than by a bench of lay magistrates ; and it would be found that the attendance of magistrates would b 3 much larger when the work of the see. sions was so materially lightened. It was a fact that 59 per cent. of the cases tried at these sessions were such as would be disposed of by the Recorder of Sheffield, because they aros e w ithi n t h e limits of the borough. In disposiug of the cases that came be" fore him, his lordship carried out to the full the new instructions, and several notorious thieves were et.a tcheed to hug tcrn - is of prIDI servitude. . SALMON FISHING IN TIIE TAY._The salmon fi sh' mg by net in th e T ay an d i ts tr ibutaries was ended onFriday, after the most unsuc cessful seaso n for the la s t 30 years. In th e past week a gr eat number of tacksmeu between the Li nn o f C am p s ie most of the stat i ons gave an d the mouth of the Earn have given up fi s hi ng a ltogether. In fact, the tacksme u of u p fishing on Tuesday night, and there is no doubt that there has been a loss of several thousand pounds to the occupiers of fishings in the past season. With regard to the rod fishing—which i s now about to corun3enee—there are are doubts as to whether it will end on the 30th September or the 10th October,— SCoMitan. t 'I